AncUysis, chap. iv

66. AnalysiSf chap. ix. Les termes de logique dénoier, ooonoter, James Mill semble les avoir empruntés à la langue grammaticale de Tooke (part. I, chap. ix; vol. I, p. Î87).

67. IV)ur éviter de définir la sensation comme qualité, James Mill prétend que ridée de qualité implique, outre Tidée d'impression sensible, l'idée d'une cause inconnue de cetle impression. Analysis, chap. xi ( vol. I, p.dàî]: Of the sensations, of siglit, of handling, of smelL, of taste, which I hâve from a rose, each is an event; witbeach of those events, I associate th* idea of a constant antécédent, a cause ; that cause unknown, but Aimisbed wilh a name, by which it may t>e spoken of, namely, quality; the qualit; of red, the cause of the sensation red ; the qualities of oonsistenœ, exteoaion and figure, the causes of the sensations of handling ; the qualifies uf smell and taste, the causes of the sensations of smell and taste.

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68. Ses expressions sont ambiguës, V. AwUysiSj diap. in (vol. 1, p. 79) : -From a stone l hâve had, sjnchronicallyy the seasation of coloar, the aen- «ation of hardness, the sensation of shape, and size, the sensation of weight. When the idea of one of thèse sensations oocurs, the ideas of ail of them oocur. They exist in my mind synchronicaily ; and their synchronical existence is called the idea of the stone; which, it is thus piain, is not a single idea, bat a number of ideas in a particular state of combina tion. — Voilà le langage de Horne Tooke; mais James Mill continue : Thus, again, I hâve smelt a rose, and looked at, and handled a rose, synchronicaily ; acoordingty the name rose suggests to me ail those ideas synchronicaily ; and this combination of those simple ideas is called my idea of the rose. My idea of an animal is still more complex. — V. encore, même chapitre (vol. I, p. 91): Ideas,... which hâve been so often conjoined, that whenever one exists in the mind, the others immediately exist along with it, seem to run into one ano.ther, to coalesce, as it were, and out of many to form one idea; whicli idea, however in reality •complex, appears to be no less simple, than any one of thèse of which it is compounded.

69. Dugald Stewart, EssaySy preliminary dissertation, chap. I; Works, vol. V, pp. 13-15.

70. Lecture XXXIl, pp. 206 sqq. — V., p. 208, la citation de Degérando, empruntée par Brown à Stewart, et où se trouve exprimée la même idée.

71. En 1803, nous voyons James Mill employer Thomson pour obtenir la collaboration de Brown, « Darwinian Brown », à son Literary Journal en voie de fondation (Bain, p. 48).

72. AfUi Jacobin Magazine, juin 1802, pp. 161 sqq. Grand éloge du « Traité » de Thomson : Thomson constate, avec raison, l'obscurité des lois générales en chimie : « The greater number of facts remain completely insulated... The unknown cause by which certain bodies hâve a tendency to unité and form oompounds is called afiOnity; bat the law, according to which the actions of that unknown cause are regulated, is very far from being yet discovered. v James Mill déplore le manque d'éducation philosophique de la plupart des chimistes. « As long as they conûned themselves to the making of experiments, or detailing of facts, they did very well, and benefited the science. But when they came to the considération of a very gênerai fact, the investigation of an universal laWy they neither had any distinct conception of the object at which they aimed, nor were their minds qualified for such extensive views. v Et James Mill félicite Thomson d'avoir débarrassé la notion d'affinité chimique de ce qu'elle contenait d'obscur.

73. Fragment on Mackintosh, pp. 172-173 : It is Mr. Mill, who Brst made knovm the great importance of the principle of the indissoluble association. It is he, who bas shewn, that various mental phenomena.

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which had puzzled ail preceding inqairers, may be satisfactorily acoounted for, by application to tbem of tbe principle of tbe indissolable association. It is by aid of this principle tbat he bas performed ail tbe more important parts of bis analytical process. — Inséparable associations (AnalysiSf chap. xi; vol. I, pp. 346-349). — Indissoluble associations, (vol. II, pp. 36, 101, 113, 114-115, 133).

74. Cf. Hartley, prop. XII, en particulier coroll. I, et Anaiym, cbap. m (vol. I, p. 91), et cbap. xiv, sect. IV (vol. II, p. 113). Ces deux passages fondamentaux sont presque textuellement empruntés à Hartley.

75. BrU. Mus. Add. Mss., 33, 152, f. 141 : Place à Mill, 20 juillet 1815: My thoughts must bave run in tbe same direction as yours for many years past ; for every now and tben you state tbe same conclusions as I bave drawn, and you can bardly conceive tbe satisfaction tbat gives me. I was glad to bear wbat you said of Berkley, Hume, Reid, Stevrart, etc. Still more so in contemplating tbe possibility of your v?ritinga book some day on thissubject; wbicb, after ail tbat bas been said agoinst it, and after ail tbe contemptwith wbich tbose to wbom close tbinking is irksome beyond endurance affect to treat it, it is tbe master science; witbout it no man I suspect ever was a good moral or political reasoner. Metapbysics or tbe science of mind necessarily includes ever^tbing tbat relates to Man wbetber internai or external.

76. Brilish Review, n* XI (août 1815): Stewart's Philosopby of tbe Human Mind.

77. BH%, Mus, Âdd. Mss., 33, 152, f. 161 : Mill à Place, 6 sept. 1815 : Hartley is a book wortb your baving tbough my saying so may jusl now appear to be a little interested. His doctrine of vibration is altogether gratuitous. But I tbink I sball one day be able to make it appe&r tbat the account be gives of tbe world of ideas is the true one. He bimself is an obscure and a very duU writer; and bitberto readers, such as be required, bave been vcry few. But bis doctrine migbt be put in a point of view so clear and striking, tbat metapbysics tbereafter would not be very mysterious.

78. Btil, Mus. Add. Mss. 33, 152, f. 220 : Mill à Place, 8 ocl. 1816: I am reading, at least I bave begun toread tbeCritic ofPure Reason. I see clearly enougb wbat poor Kant is about — but it would require no liitle pain to give an account of bim. I bave given a basty reading to Hartley since I came bere. Hartley's is tbe true scent; but bis book is obscurely written; and it will require no little prose-writing (?) reflection to render the application of his theory perfectly familiar to any mind in every part of the field of thought. This I shall be going on, doing, doing, — but bow long it will take to be being donc will dépend upon many circumstances. » — Dans le même temps, Place s'est mis à l'étude de la philosophie kantienne (Place à Mill. 2 oct. 1816. — BrU. Mus. Add. Mss., 33, 152, f. 217), puis de Berkeley (f. 223 verso : 21 cet.) : If tbe aulbor bad omilled

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the words Mind ^ Soûl — Spirit — God, etc., his work would hâve been more intelligible, and not one quarter so long as it now is... I shall read his dialogues once more, and then the old, hard-headed, despized fellow, the father of them ail, Hartley.

79. James Mill à Place, 6 déc. 1817 : BHL Mm, Àdd. MsS., 33, 155, f.